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Al Gore's 'Army' Gets Basic Training
Global warming crusader Al Gore has trained some 1,000 Americans to deliver his Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth” slide show to schools, Rotary clubs and nursing homes across the nation.
Thousands of applications for Gore’s effort, The Climate Project, poured in after word of the training circulated last summer through environmental sites and blogs, USA Today reported.
Candidates were chosen based on "their ability to commit to doing the 10 presentations and reach unique groups of people,” said project director Jenny Clad.
The first group of 50 trainees spent time on Gore’s Tennessee farm.
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"If ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ portrayed Gore as a lonely eco-warrior,” USA Today observed, "he now as a willing army.”
Members of Gore’s "army” range from Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Dhani Jones to comedian Chevy Chase’s wife Jayni to newswoman Greta Van Susteren’s sister Lise. But not everyone is thrilled about Gore’s climate change initiative.
"I’m very uncomfortable with 1,000 people who aren’t technically trained in a field as complex and important as this proselytizing for one extreme point of view,” Pat Michaels, senior fellow with the conservative Cato Institute, told USA Today.
And Myron Ebell, a global warming specialist with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, noted that by sending out substitutes, Gore gets around "the fact that he’s one of the most polarizing politicians in America. By not being Gore, you can go out and give slide shows in what I’d call the real America, that part in between the coasts.”
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